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experiments on AI, creativity and what humans do next
- How well do decision models know geography?This post scores four decision models on the same grid, with seven ways of asking, and checks what they know when given place names instead of coordinates.
- What happens to creativity when the cost of f*cking around approaches zero?When ideas cost almost nothing to make, two things still decide the outcome: how likely an idea is to be spot on, and how much it costs to find out.
- Can you trust your agents to do what they say is right?We gave 9 AI models the same ethical dilemmas twice. When they believed their actions were real, they changed their decision 47.6% of the time.
- Does pressure make AI models more biased?We changed only the names in ethical dilemmas and added time pressure and high stakes for 3 AI models. Which model mattered more than the pressure.
- Does telling an AI your values change what it decides?We gave GPT-4.1 Mini a VALUES.md file with utilitarian or rule-based ethics. On 2 of 10 dilemmas its decision followed the file. On 6 nothing changed.